Re: Modular C library

[Damian McGuckin]

Hi,

On Thu, 29 Dec 2022, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

> Every time I try to patch glibc, I come again to this idea: the standard 
> C library is doomed to be a mess, because the standard mandates it. 
> I'm considering writing a new C library that is designed as a hurd of 
> microlibraries, which can be replaced independently.  One could 
> mix'n'match each of those microlibraries, since they would only rely on 
> the public interface of other functions, so implementation details would 
> matter very little.  The headers would be organized and split, into 
> (relatively-deep) directory trees.
>
> I'll write the functions with a c_ prefix, so that I'm able to reserve all 
> c_* identifiers for use by this library, and all headers will start with 
> <c/*>.
>
> With that, this library will be able to live side-by-side with any libc; and 
> in fact will need it while it's incomplete and it's not the default system 
> library.
>
> So far, I'll make my recent libstp be one of these micro libraries.
>
> If you're interested in it, I'll open a public git repo for it.

Do not these exist?  One of them is called MUSL designed as a drop-in
replacement for glibc.

Or have I mis-understood - Damian